Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 793 Don’t Be an Example (5K)

After Fang Zhuo arrived in New York, he arranged a tight itinerary.

There are only less than 4 weeks before Apple's press conference. Although there is already a psychological expectation of going slow and fast, the landing of the other party's new phone will still bring pressure.

Android's progress, hardware situation, Google's attitude and other factors are largely out of control.

"Boss Fang, you are frowning, I don't dare to pick up food now."

After returning to the hotel from the airport, we had dinner together after a short rest.

Yu Hong noticed that a group of executives were a little cautious because of Mr. Fang's contemplation, and made a sound to enliven the atmosphere.

Fang Zhuo glanced at Mr. Yu, saw other people watching unconsciously from the corner of his eye, and said with a smile: "I frowned because I was thinking about Lehman, Mr. Yu, there is no news about Apple, do we have any good news from our side?" ?”

"Yes." Yu Hong said immediately, "Of course."

Fang Zhuo, Xu Kedeng and others all listened attentively.

Yu Hong said happily: "Our mobile phone can be successfully used for an hour without automatically blacking out or shutting down!"

As the co-founder and chief official of Xinjiang, Mr. Yu is also a high-ranking official in Yike Company.

The executives from China were subconsciously happy.

"It seems that Mr. Yu is also facing a lot of competitive pressure in the United States." Fang Zhuo sighed, "I don't even have such yin and yang aura."

People's new Apple phones are about to go online, and the screen is still black here, what is there to be happy about.

The executives were unhappy again following Mr. Fang's instructions.

Xu Kedeng took the lead in protesting the sandwich biscuit: "Mr. Fang, Mr. Yu, I'm done eating. I'll go back to beat the jet lag. I didn't sleep well on the plane."

Yu Hong smiled and said, "Teacher Xu, take a good rest, I must be tired recently."

With the retreat of the technical director, other people are also full soon.

Fang Zhuo waited until they all left and said helplessly, "Mr. Yu is becoming more and more powerful, and he is really the king of Yikemei."

"The king of the United States without shares?" Yu Hong sneered, and said, "You have money to buy an airplane, when will you pay me back?"

"The plane is in the name of the company." Fang Zhuo said seriously, "Do you need money now? I can always get it out by squeezing left and right."

"Wait for the result of your shorting Lehman. I also want to see whether it is a loss or a profit." Yu Hong talked about the previous attention from the air, and she could more clearly feel the public opinion of the two companies at that time in the United States. Condition.

Lehman short Yike?are you crazy!
Fang Zhuo short Lehman?It's also a neuropathy!

Looking at the time, shorting Lehman is in mid-August, and there are only two months left before the six-month deadline.

Yu Hong also saw a Lehman executive mention this matter last week, and she said triumphantly that Lehman's stock price has risen slightly.

But compared to the turbulent Wall Street, this small friction between the two companies is not very hot, and it is estimated that there will be some reports when the results come out.

Now she wants to see which one is more nervous.

Fang Zhuo nodded. Soon, housing prices in New York have shown more obvious signs of decline, but the financial market seems to feel that their prosperity has gone beyond the foundation of reality.

The two ate and chatted, but they were not in a hurry to end the dinner.

Now that Fang Zhuo has arrived in New York, he adjusted his mentality a little and asked some more specific things about the Android company.

In the first two months, Yu Hong actually went back to China to rest for a few days, and also met Zhou Xin and his daughter Keke. This time, she would answer Mr. Fang's questions and ask about Zhou Keke's situation.

It was rather embarrassing that Fang Zhuo couldn't answer Yu Hong's fluent answers...

"Forget it, forget it, it would be nice for President Fang to remember that his name is Ke Ke." Yu Hong complained, "Tell me about your cross-patent licensing."

Fang Zhuo was a little ashamed.

He thought silently for a few seconds, and explained in more detail the thoughts raised in the car: "Yike is a shareholder of Android Company, and now the success of the Android system and Yike's mobile phone belong to two sides of the same body, and I want Android to be faster and better. , Yike gives our patent license to manufacturers equipped with Android system, which is also an attraction."

"The patent approved in the United States through the PCT this time has relatively basic applications in touch-screen mobile phones."

"I hope to establish a patent pool cooperation mechanism with Google. We put the patents we can use into the pool, and Google puts theirs into the pool. Let's make this pool bigger together, so as to better build smart phones. product."

Yu Hong nodded slightly. Google is rich and getting richer. Its current attitude is not to directly manufacture mobile phones, but to focus on the development of the Android system, but the Android system is open to seek more manufacturers to carry it.

How to make one's own camp have a patent moat is an important matter for Android companies.

Fang Zhuo looked at Yu Hong, and continued: "Google revealed the idea of ​​making an Android subsidiary last time. If there is one, there may be two. The patents provided by Yike for this mechanism are more basic and more core, and we will have more bargaining chips in the future." more."

Such a chip is not only the cooperation between the two parties on the Android company, but also the consideration that if it becomes a state of confrontation, the basic and core patent authorization can be turned into a weapon in turn.

Whether this potential weapon is sharp enough depends on whether Yike's research and development capabilities are strong enough, and it is also one body with two sides.

Yu Hong could only hear a layer of meaning, thought for a while, and said: "I think the patent litigation in the United States is very cumbersome, and it takes several years between big companies. If Apple is really a touch-screen phone, I am afraid that this batch of patents will It is not easy to hinder the launch of its mobile phone this time.”

Patent litigation and counterclaims are the norm in competition.

It also involves multiple examinations of patents and invalidation of patent applications.

Even if Apple really infringes, the outcome of the lawsuit will at least be a matter of next year or the year after, and it is difficult to have an impact on the present.

There is also a tendency for the other party to have similar patents and reconcile with each other.

However, if it succeeds in the US ITC lawsuit, referring to the previous HTC losing the lawsuit and being banned from entering the US market, it will be the beginning of decline.

Fang Zhuo thinks he can give it a try. Anyway, if he has a date or not, he will hit two shots. When the Yike mobile phone is released, I believe Apple will not be polite.

"Apple will be launched in January. According to the plan, Yikede will be a year later. We will start with competition outside of products. It is better to do less than to do more."

Yu Hong gave a "hmm", took a sip of water, got up and said, "Okay, I'll look at these patents later when I go back, and you should go to bed early. I'm going to Silicon Valley tomorrow. I'm afraid you still have some decisions to make."

She was referring to problems with phone design.

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly, he needed to take the responsibility himself: "Okay, see you tomorrow."

However, seeing that it was not too late, he returned to the room and made a small chat call to Stringer.

Sure enough, the old jazz didn't sleep, and he was in a good mood.

He is very comfortable in his tenure at the head of Sony this year. The US business has reached a new high. The troubles of PS3 were resolved in August.

Today, Stringer is faintly praised by Sony as the "Master of ZTE".

Fang Zhuo didn't say anything else in this call, but praised the recovery of the company as an external director of Sony.

However, when Stringer talked about investing huge sums of money in TV production lines next year and speeding up the global industrial layout, he didn't know how to respond for a while, so he made an appointment to meet for afternoon tea when he had time.

Although the old jazz is quite greedy in Android shares, but...

Fang Zhuo extinguished a trace of emotion in an instant, thinking about something, waiting to buy a building.

The day after arriving in the United States, Fang Zhuo and Yu Hong flew to Silicon Valley with Yike's senior management team, and met Google founder Larry and CEO Schmidt.

Fang Zhuo simply chatted about his ideas on the patent pool and was immediately enthusiastically agreed by Schmidt.

Win-win, win-win.

Google is going to promote its own mobile services, and the Android camp is also considering the patent care of future manufacturers. It is a good thing that Yike is willing to deepen cooperation in this way.

However, Schmidt was a little hesitant after hearing Fang Zhuo's other condition, to pre-install the software developed by Yike Company on the Android system?

"Mr. Fang, I like your ambition, but if you look at the development expectations of Android companies, you should know that we have an Android Market application store on the Android system."

"I think this software similar to SMS communication you mentioned can be placed in the Android Market, how about it?"

Fang Zhuo and Yu Hong were invited into Schmidt's office to discuss these.

He directly expressed his dissatisfaction: "No, Schmidt, your Google is too slow. I helped you negotiate with China Mobile, China Unicom, and telecom operators, but your Open Mobile Phone Alliance has not been established for a long time."

"The development progress of the Android system is under the control of your Google, and there is no hope of going online yet."

"Even, the operator's negotiation is a mess!"

"Schmidt, our competitor is about to launch a mobile phone, we can't stop here, we can't stand still, we have to attack quickly!"

"You have forced our Yike company to start helping to consider the system ecology!"

Schmidt was not angry because of Mr. Fang's emotions, and pointed out: "Mr. Fang, it's not 'you', it's 'our' Open Handset Alliance. I also very urgently want it to be established as soon as possible, but the problem is still with the operators. here."

"We invited T-Mobile and AT&T, but they were not interested."

"We're missing a key person."

AT&T and T-Mobile are respectively the No. [-] and No. [-] mobile communication operators in the United States.

Fang Zhuo frowned and said, "You're not talking about me, are you? I'm not familiar with AT&T and T-Mobile at all."

Schmidt froze for a moment, then smiled: "No, no, no, I mean we still lack a key lobbyist. Google hopes to allow AT&T and T-Mobile to join the Open Handset Alliance."

Larry next to him helped explain: "The competition between AT&T and T-Mobile is fierce, and it will be difficult to win them. If possible, we very much hope that future Yike mobile phones can be sold along the channels of these two operators."

Fang Zhuo turned his anger into joy: "Where are the key people? Can we negotiate?"

Schmidt and Larry glanced at each other, both of them felt a little helpless: "Hilde is the non-executive director of T-Mobile and has worked in AT&T for a long time. The relationship between the two sides is good. Unfortunately, he went to see you last week. God."

Fang Zhuo: "..."

Larry continued: "Little Hield also has a good influence on T-Mobile, but the negotiations on the AT&T side have stalled, and we have a very real message."

"Apple should have an exclusive partnership with AT&T."

"There is probably some sort of exclusive agreement on both sides."

Fang Zhuo frowned slightly, digesting the news: "It seems that God doesn't want AT&T to cooperate with us. As far as I know, T-Mobile's users in the United States are quite different from AT&T's, right?"

Knowing this data, Yu Hong added: "AT&T has completed the acquisition of the wireless operator Cingular, and there is a gap between T-Mobile and T-Mobile in about 6000 million and 2000 million subscribers."

Schmidt nodded. If he could choose, the Open Handset Alliance certainly hoped it would be AT&T.

Yu Hong added: "But T-Mobile has a good market in Europe. It itself is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. Europe is the main camp. There are estimated to be 6000 million users there."

Fang Zhuo turned the data in his mind and asked, "First and third, what about the second? Is it Verizon?"

Schmidt shrugged: "We have a tense relationship with Verizon."

The three major operators in the United States, AT&T and Apple cooperate, Verizon has a tense relationship with Google, and there is a big gap in the number of T-Mobile users.

"Then let T-Mobile come in first. In addition to the top three, the fourth and fifth are also fine." Fang Zhuo persuaded.

Schmidt thinks it is necessary to show his achievements, and he always has a feeling of being treated as waste by Mr. Fang: "KDDI, NTT, Softbank in Japan, Telecom in Italy, Telefónica in Spain, TELUS in Canada, Vodafone in the UK, Google Had a great time talking to them."

"This is the best news I've heard recently." Fang Zhuo commented.

Schmidt said with a smile: "So, Mr. Fang, I think you pay too much attention to Apple's mobile phone. Instead of being so nervous about it, you should pay more attention to the more realistic competitor Nokia, and the growth rate is very good. Sony Ericsson."

Larry also said: "This will be a strong opponent of the Yike mobile phone after it is released."

Schmidt said: "Mr. Fang, I will help you to look at Apple's new mobile phone. It is the first time to make a mobile phone. I think if it is possible, it will encounter problems and hope to join our Android camp."

Seeing that Mr. Fang still looked solemn, he smiled slightly: "You have to trust the judgment of an outside director of Apple, after all, I am going to speak on stage."

Fang Zhuo had a lot of dealings with Google founder Larry before, but now there is an omission in information, and he was taken aback when he heard this: "Why are you an Apple director?"

Schmidt asked back: "President Fang, why are you a director of Sony?"

Fang Zhuo was speechless: "You Apple director don't like its mobile phone?"

Schmidt asked again: "Mr. Fang, are you, a director of Sony, optimistic about Sony's development?"

Fang Zhuo was convinced.

As an external director of Sony, I completed an empathy with Mr. Schmidt, an external director of Apple.

Since he, the foreign director, can wait to buy the building, Schmidt, the foreign director, can of course look down on Apple mobile phones.

Unfortunately, he was wrong this time.

"Mr. Fang, Sony Ericsson mobile phones are developing very well. I think you can learn more from Sony's mobile phone experience." Schmidt reminded Mr. Fang again to pay attention to competitors.

Suo Wai Director expressed to Apple Wai Director's reminder about Sony Ericsson mobile phones...it really felt so absurd.

Apple's external directors did not believe in the importance attached by Sony's external directors, and Sony's external directors did not agree with the judgment of Apple's external directors.

Fang Zhuo was silent for a while, but he didn't ask about Schmidt's appearance at the Apple conference. It was nothing more than a cooperation with Google Search. Even if Google made Android, it would not give up any opportunity to enter the mobile terminal.

He drank half a glass of water, reorganized the message, and asked, "Schmidt, have you looked at Apple's phone?"

"No, I just know some news, but I'm waiting for the press conference just like everyone else. Well, maybe I can see it a day in advance." Schmidt is not sure.

Fang Zhuo also understands that he, Sony's foreign director, doesn't know Sony's secrets, and Apple pays more attention to the protection of mobile phones.

He was lost in thought.

Schmidt continued to talk about his views on Apple mobile phones, mainly looking at the prospects of Apple mobile phones from the multi-faceted cooperation of the Android system, and believed that the future smartphone system must be open.

Fang Zhuo listened to this for a while, "Ashi, you'd better do a good job of searching."

He sought common ground while reserving differences: "Whether it is Apple, Nokia or Sony Ericsson, we have to mention the development progress. Google can realize the future of smarter mobile phones, but Microsoft can't realize it?"

"Don't give your opponent too much time to react."

Schmidt made a promise: "President Fang, I believe we will see the establishment of the Open Handset Alliance in the first half of the year, which will be a symbolic signal for the development of the smartphone system."

Fang Zhuo finally heard the right words: "Before March, Schmidt, I hope to see the establishment of the Open Mobile Phone Alliance before March."

He emphasized: "Before I came, I even hoped to see it at the end of this month!"

Schmidt felt a little helpless about the urgency he felt from Mr. Fang: "As far as possible, Mr. Fang, I also hope to drink champagne with you in March."

He turned the topic back to the original question: "The software developed by Yike will be placed in the Android Market."

Fang Zhuo refused: "No, Google should welcome Yike's enrichment of the Android ecosystem."

Schmidt shook his head: "Welcome, of course, but it must be included in the Market system."

One is pre-installed, and the other is in the application store. The former belongs to the parallel relationship, and the latter belongs to the upper and lower relationship.

Schmidt didn't like the destruction of Ike's pre-installation, especially since, as the proposed first Android phone, it seemed like a bad example.

"Schmidt, Larry, Yike is a shareholder of Android, and it is also a hardware manufacturer." Fang Zhuo stated the reason, "Android can have its own Market application store, but we must also accept the transformation of Android by our hardware manufacturers."

"After all, it's open."

"What Yike wants to do is also in line with the Android spirit, isn't it?"

Fang Zhuo got up and stretched out his right hand to Schmidt.

Schmidt hesitated for a few seconds before stretching out his hand, and complained, "You are a shareholder when you urge Android, and you are a manufacturer when you destroy Android. Mr. Fang, you are the first Android phone. Don't download it as an example. Android can only To leave Yike a position, the Market system must be established.”

He had a little more strength in his hands to show his determination.

Fang Zhuo solemnly shook hands again and again, never mind, never mind.

(End of this chapter)